Venue: VAMA – The Boot Camp
Programme Type: Full-Day Experiential Leadership & Team Systems Investigation
Age Group: 15–16 years
This full-day experiential programme is structured as a systems-based investigation into identity, leadership and collaboration. Rather than treating the experience as recreational team-building, students analyse how individual identity influences group performance, how leadership functions under pressure and how perspective-taking shapes decision-making.
The boot camp environment provides controlled scenarios in which students observe behavioural patterns, emotional regulation, communication styles and leadership structures in real time. Each activity becomes a case study in teamwork systems, role allocation, trust-building and problem-solving.
The academic emphasis is on:
• Identity and behavioural influence
• Group dynamics and collaboration systems
• Leadership under constraint
• Communication and conflict management
• Reflection supported by observed evidence
Students are required to move beyond personal reflection and demonstrate structured analysis of how and why teams succeed or fail.
Students will:
• Analyse how individual identity influences group interaction
• Evaluate leadership styles in practical scenarios
• Explain how communication affects team efficiency
• Assess emotional regulation under pressure
• Construct structured evaluative responses based on observed behaviour
By the end of the programme, students will be able to:
• Identify different leadership styles demonstrated during activities
• Explain how perspective-taking improves collaboration
• Analyse one example of effective teamwork and one of inefficiency
• Evaluate the importance of emotional regulation in group success
• Produce a structured analytical reflection supported by examples